Re: w not working

[Remco Rijnders <remmy@cistron.nl>]

On Fri, 7 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote:

>Remco Rijnders wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I run a potato system and just noticed that w stopped working.
>> 
>> $ w
>> w: error in loading shared libraries: libproc.so.1.2.6: cannot open shared
>> object file: No such file or directory
>> 
>> The libproc.so on my system is libproc.so.2.0.0
>> 
>> Shouldn't this have been catched in some dependancy?
>
>What's "update-alternatives --display w" say?

As requested:

hydrus:/home/remmy# update-alternatives --display w
w - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/bin/w.procps
/usr/bin/w.procps - priority 50
 slave w.1.gz: /usr/man/man1/w.procps.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/w.procps.

Then Bob Nielsen wrote:

>It's working for me (/usr/bin/w is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/w,
>which is a symlink to /usr/bin/w.procps).  
>
>procps 2.0.2-2 is installed.

I checked...

$ ls -l /usr/bin/w
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     root         7752 Feb  7 09:48 /usr/bin/w

This seems to conflict with the link that update-alternatives is
reporting?

My procps is versions 2.0.2-2 as well.

Note that w.procps does work while plain w doesn't.

Thank you,

Remmy